Thursday, June 8, 2017

K&N Pro Series West at Colorado National Speedway

Eggleston Hopes For Home Cooking This Weekend, Gilliland Has Other Plans

Chris Eggleston will look to chase down Bill McAnally Racing teammate Todd Gilliland this weekend at his home track, Colorado National Speedway. #NASCAR
Chris Eggleston will look to chase down Bill McAnally Racing teammate
Todd Gilliland this weekend at his home track, Colorado National Speedway.

The NASCAR K&N Pro Series West season hits the halfway mark with the NAPA/Toyota 150 at Colorado National Speedway in Dacono, Colorado, on Saturday, June 10.

Hometown boy, Chris Eggleston hopes a return home will help him continue building momentum in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West.  The 2015 series champion chipped into his points deficit at California’s Orange Show Speedway in the series’ most recent event, earning his first Coors Light Pole Award of the season en route to the victory, putting him within 11 points of the K&N Pro Series West points leader and Bill McAnally Racing teammate Todd Gilliland.



Eggleston’s victory was his second of the season — but it was his first since the season opener at Arizona's Tucson Raceway — and it snapped Gilliland’s dominant run of four straight wins.

Of course, the 2016 series champion, Todd Gilliland, of Sherrills Ford, North Carolina has different plans.   You can catch all the action in real time via your computer at Race Central Live 2017 .

The #NASCAR K&N Pro Series West season hits the halfway mark with the NAPA/Toyota 150 at Colorado National Speedway
The NASCAR K&N Pro Series West season hits the halfway mark
with the NAPA/Toyota 150 at Colorado National Speedway

Driver Highlights of Top-Five Drivers In The K&N Pro Series Point Standings:

Todd Gilliland
(No. 16 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota)

  • • Won six of 14 races last season with 11 top fives and 13 top 10s en route to the K&N Pro Series West championship, becoming the youngest champion in NASCAR touring series history at 16 years, five months, and joined his grandfather Butch Gilliland as a K&N West champion (1997).
  • • Won the first five pole awards of the season and four straight races — California's Kern County Raceway Park, Irwindale (twice) and Washington's Spokane County Raceway.
  • • Has five top fives and six top 10s in six races this season to lead the point standings by 11 over Chris Eggleston.
  • • Finished second after winning the pole at Colorado last season in his only career start at the track.
  • • Was named to the 2017 NASCAR Next class in May.

Chris Eggleston
(No. 99 Platinum Filters Toyota)

  • • Has seven career K&N Pro Series West wins with 25 top fives and 28 top 10s in 37 career starts.
  • • Was the 2015 series champion with Bill McAnally Racing.
  • • Has won two of the last three races at Colorado (2014, 2016), where he is a former track champion in the Legends division and a multi-time feature winner in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Super Late Models.
  • • Has led 210 total laps at Colorado with two wins, three top fives, three top 10s and an average finishing position of 4.0 in four starts.
  • • One of only two drivers this season to finish inside the top 10 in all six races.

Derek Kraus
(No. 19 Carlyle Tools/NAPA Belts & Hoses Toyota)

  • • Made his K&N Pro Series debut with the East at Florida's New Smyrna Speedway and finished third.
  • • Sits third in the current series standings with three top fives and four top 10s through six races.
  • • Finished a career-best second at Kern County in March.
  • • This will be his first series start at Colorado.

Nicole Behar
(No. 33 Custom Welding & Fabrication Toyota)

  • • Currently sits fourth in the K&N Pro Series West standings with one top five and five top 10s in five starts this season.
  • • Finished a career-best second at California's Irwindale Event Center in 2015.
  • • One of only three drivers with at least five top-10 finishes this season.
  • • Finished 10th in the final series standings in 2015, her only full season with the series.
  • • Finished ninth in 2015 in her only career start at Colorado.

Will Rodgers
(No. 7 Solvang Brewing Company Ford) 

  • • Competed in six races a year ago and is running for the K&N Pro Series West Sunoco Rookie of the Year Award this season. 
  • • Ranks fifth in the overall standings with four top fives and four top 10s in six races this year. 
  • • Posted a career best finish of third at Kern County in March.


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